Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.

Ladies and gentlemen are supposed to be looked after by others, like children and pets.

Machismo makes no provision for preparing lunch, doing the laundry, or minding the baby.

To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks.

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it.

The squabbles of philandering Zeus and shrewish Hera are the Greeks' comment on married life.